Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development, Associate Director of the Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
Major achievements include:
More than 20 years of experience working at the cutting-edge of cognitive developmental neuroscience
Received her PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge (U.K.) in 2005 and completed postdoctoral training in the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Authored over 80 scientific publications, including manuscripts in high-impact journals such as Science, PLOS Biology, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, and Biological Psychiatry
Founder and director of ORIGIN (the Organization for Imaging Genomics in Infancy), a working group of the ENIGMA Consortium (Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis), serves on the editorial board of Molecular Autism, and belongs to numerous professional organizations, including the Society for Neuroscience and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Current interests include:
Research focuses on understanding how genetic and environmental factors influence the development of brain morphometry, anatomical and functional connectivity, and cognitive and emotional function in infancy and early childhood
Particular interest in mechanisms underlying sexual differentiation of the brain and the microbiome-gut-brain axis
